On Apr 29, 5:44 pm, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/
His points make sense to me, but then I'd be labeled an Apple fanboi on this group. ;-) The one thing I find interesting is that when Microsoft protected their Windows monopoly, they stalled IE after they beat Netscape and crippled it to this day (IE 8; maybe IE 9 is better). Apple, on the other hand, doesn't seem to cripple Mobile Safari even though it works around their app store (see Google Voice being rejected as an app and then implemented in HTML 5), they seem to push its capabilities with HTML 5 support (for now). Maybe this will change in the future, but since everybody but Microsoft uses Webkit as their mobile browser, I'm not sure that Apple could slow down Mobile Safari when the other guys can pull ahead, especially since web browsing is more important and viable on the iPad (and the possible Apple TV reboot) than it is on the iPhone. However, Flash must be an important topic to Apple (PR-wise, at least) if Steve Jobs publishes a letter like this (or Apple publishes it in his name) - the last time that happened, I think, was in February 2007 where Apple waved goodbye to DRM (which then happened a couple of months afterwards; http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughtsonmusic/). In the end, it's all about business & money - Apple wants to sell iPhones with the best user experience, Adobe wants to sell Flash tools by making it a viable mobile platform, so they both try to rally developers to their respective cause. And it's good that Android and Blackberry will reportedly get Flash soon, because it pushes Apple to advance their platform/tools/browser to compete with that. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
